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GAPS Newsletter: January 2022
Happy New Year to all our subscribers, and welcome to our January wrap-up! We are excited to start off 2022 by welcoming a new member into the GAPS network: Christian Aid. Christian Aid works primarily in countries affected by conflict…
GAPS Newsletter: December 2021
Welcome to both our December newsletter and 2021 wrap up. It has been an eventful year for the GAPS Team, and as we come to the end of 2021, our team and members are looking forward to taking a break…
GAPS September Newsletter
Welcome to our September Wrap-Up! As you may have seen this month, the cabinet reshuffle saw the appointment of a new Foreign Secretary, Liz Truss. GAPS, along with other organisations, met with the new Foreign Secretary and Minister Wendy Morton,…
GAPS Newsletter August 2021
Updates Response to the Crisis in Afghanistan On Monday 17th August, GAPS wrote to the Prime Minister, and the Secretaries of State for the Home Department, Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office, and Defence about the life-threatening situation facing women and…
GAPS Newsletter June and July 2021
Updates Women, Peace and Security and Humanitarian Action (WPSHA) Compact GAPS has been a vocal part of the global push for the WPSHA Compact and is proud to be both a signatory and a catalytic member in the movement for…
GAPS Newsletter: April 2021
Updates UK Government’s Annual Report to Parliament in 2020 & GAPS Shadow Report Launch On Thursday 29th April, the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Women, Peace and Security (APPG-WPS) and GAPS hosted the UK Government’s Oral Report to Parliament in 2020…
GAPS Newsletter: November 2020
The 25th November is the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, and the start of the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence.
GAPS Newsletter: June 2020
Research & Resources The Shadow Pandemic: Gender-Based Violence among Rohingya refugees in Cox's Bazar This report by the International Rescue Committee (IRC) used data collected from their women’s centres and health programme sites in 19 camps across Cox’s Bazar to…
GAPS Newsletter: May 2020
Research & Resources Creating lasting impact: The power of women-led localised responses to COVID-19 ActionAid's policy brief highlights why COVID-19 poses a significant threat to women’s rights, and makes a series of practical recommendations for COVID-19 response efforts to be…
GAPS Newsletter: January 2020
Updates 2020 - A big year for Women, Peace and Security 2020 marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Fourth World Conference on Women and adoption of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action (1995). The Generation Equality Forum, a civil society-led global gathering…
GAPS newsletter: August 2019
Updates All-Party Parliamentary Group on Women, Peace and Security The APPG on Women, Peace and Security has published event reports for two recent public events: "Life in Limbo: adolescent girls in crisis and conflict" and "Gender and Conflict in the…
GAPS Newsletter: April 2019
Updates UN Security Council Resolution 2467 On Tuesday 23 April 2019, under German presidency, the UN Security Council held the annual Open Debate on Sexual Violence in Conflict and adopted a ninth UN Security Council Resolution as part of the…
GAPS Newsletter: July 2018
Events FiLiA Feminist Conference 2018 20-21 October 2018 Salford, Greater Manchester The FiLiA 2018 conference brings together sisters taking down patriarchy, fighting injustices across the world, fighting violence towards women, pay disparity, discrimination against refugees, racism, classism. What's feminism got…
Women building peace: Marwa Baabbad
For International Women's Day 2018, GAPS is celebrating diaspora women building peace through projects in the UK and across the world. Their work, from local initiatives to high-level peace processes, is at the forefront of change as they bring their voices,…
PRESS RELEASE 14th October 2015: New UK pledges on women in conflicts get cautious welcome from Campaigners who call for better results
UN event calls for doubling of women in peacekeeping operations over next five years Charities and women’s rights campaigners have given a cautious welcome to a raft of pledges by the United Nations, the United Kingdom and other governments to…